OBJECTIVES Our aim was to determine the rate of surgical complications associated with cervical endoscopic discectomy (CED). BACKGROUND DATA There are no studies that state the degree of complications after CED. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-one patients underwent CED with holmium laser. RESULTS Two out of 41 patients incurred vascular compromise during the procedure. One patient developed ...

Vocal cord paralysis associated with goiter usually indicates the presence of a malignancy. Pediatric patients retain significant thymic tissue that regresses only later in life. This thymic tissue can develop significant hyperplasia during an acute autoimmune process. We describe a case of a 17-year-old girl who presented with a goiter secondary to severe Graves’ disease and a 2-month history ...

The aim of the present study was to determine whether immediate revision surgery has benefits for patients with iatrogenic bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) palsy. From January 1, 2004 to January 30, 2011, 29 consecutive patients underwent immediate revision after total thyroidectomy. The cohort comprised 29 patients, 2 males and 27 females, aged 23 to 76 years (median 52 years). Identi...

BACKGROUND Thyroid surgery has been associated with complications ranging from nerve injury to death. Improvements in techniques have reduced the mortality rate to minimum. Morbidity, however, remains a significant concern. This study was designed to determine the prevalence of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) injury and duration of recovery following transient recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, ...

Vocal cord paralysis associated with goiter usually indicates the presence of a malignancy. Pediatric patients retain significant thymic tissue that regresses only later in life. This thymic tissue can develop significant hyperplasia during an acute autoimmune process. We describe a case of a 17-year-old girl who presented with a goiter secondary to severe Graves’ disease and a 2-month history ...

Medialization thyroplasty or injection laryngoplasty for unilateral vocal fold paralysis cannot restore mobility of the vocal fold. Recent studies have shown that transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells is effective in the repair of nerve injuries. This study investigated whether adipose-derived stem cell transplantation could repair recurrent laryngeal nerve injury. Rat models of recurrent l...

Vocal cord paralysis associated with goiter usually indicates the presence of a malignancy. Pediatric patients retain significant thymic tissue that regresses only later in life. This thymic tissue can develop significant hyperplasia during an acute autoimmune process. We describe a case of a 17-year-old girl who presented with a goiter secondary to severe Graves’ disease and a 2-month history ...

Dear Editor, Recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) lies in close proximity with the thyroid gland. Thus, thyroid diseases, mainly the malignant ones, tend to cause irreversible recurrent laryngeal nerve damage due to the infi ltration of the tumour cell. RLN damage due to benign lesion particularly from a solitary thyroid cyst is a rare incident. We report a case of a patient with right vocal cord pa...

Reidel thyroiditis is extremely rare and not only involves the thyroid gland but usually extends to neighboring structures in the neck. A rare complication of this disease is entrapment of the recurrent laryngeal nerve causing a vocal cord paralysis. In fact, to our knowledge, this is likely the only benign thyroid disease to cause such a paralysis. We present a case of a 57-year-old woman with...